Cancer? Chemical? A child? — Yes. This is the most unexpected and powerful film that tells the audience about cancer. We are too used to the usual movie drama, where a girl (sometimes a guy) learns about the disease, falls in love, suffer themselves and create suffering for their loved ones, and all this is seasoned with beautiful music and words of heroes that they would never say in real life.
Chemistry is a completely different story.
Lena (Agnieszka Zhulevska) suddenly quits her job without any explanation, grabs the dress and leaves. In the middle of the day. She doesn't care. She's done.
Benedict (Thomas Schuchardt) is racing in his car. Where? He doesn't care either. He's 33 years old and he's tired of it.
They happen to meet in circumstances that a healthy person would call wild and dive into the pool. They don't care what the consequences are. And what can be in principle, if for everyone it is a fleeting affair?
True, life decides otherwise. They are attracted by the thirst for destruction, instability, lack of responsibility and Lena and Benedict suddenly fall in love and stay together.
We are used to the fact that in the post-Soviet space beautiful films are not made a priori. No one is capable, cinema is stuck in the twentieth century, it is hopeless. After the Polish “Ida”, which suddenly won an Oscar a couple of years ago, about the cinema of the neighboring country began to talk, began to look for something worthwhile and how everyone was surprised when “something” was found!
“Chemistry” is a completely unique film based on real events – it tells about the life of a woman who has cancer and is not going to fight it, but suddenly a man and a child appear in her life. Everything went not for her plan, but nevertheless, it turns out that it is necessary to live.
- Now you have to fall in love with her.
- Is the doctor a specialist?
- The emphasis is on “falling in love,” not “deadly.”
What distinguishes this film from hundreds of other “cancer” films?
Total surprise. If you find “Chemistry” on the expanses of Kinopoisk and decide to see, I beg you, do not read about Magda Prokopovich, whose story became the basis for the film, watch the trailer, watch “Chemistry”.
The footage is filled with presence. Life, music, reality. There are no pink snots, no ostentatious courage and suffering that the couple carry so happily as if they were a gift from heaven. Every moment of the film evokes a single thought: damn it, it really is, and powerlessness and love and hatred are all real.
The actors are amazing. There's no feeling they've been ordered to play - it's their life, their love, their tears. Agnieszka Zhulevska appears in the guise of such a reckless person that you involuntarily cry with her and forget that you are watching the actor’s play.
Well, Tomasz Schuchardt, having played in several iconic films with famous actors secondary roles, appears in the frame as a child who is not able to take care of himself, but is capable of great love and faith.
... It's cancer. And this is our war with him.
- What are you doing, let me go, you'll drop me.
I won't. Every weakness in war is punishable by death.
10 x 10
By the way, it is possible that the film has not yet been dubbed and even if your Polish language is not important, watch it. Love has no language boundaries.